Third Edition
by Harry N. Herkowitz
The Lumbar Spine is the most authoritative and up-to-date reference on the lumbar spine. It provides more balance between basic science and clinical material.
Contents
Basic Science
- Epidemiology and the Economics of Low Back Pain
- Pathophysiology of Nerve Root Pain in Disc Herniation and Spinal Stenosis
- Biomechanical Considerations of Disc Degeneration
- Morphologic Changes of End Plates in Degenerative Disc Disease
- Clinical Spinal Instability Resulting from Injury and Degeneration
- Spinal Instrumentation
- Fracture and Repair of Lumbar Vertebrae
- Genetic Transmission of Common Spinal Disorders
- Genetic Applications to Lumbar Disc Disease
- Clinical Neurophysiologic and Electrodiagnostic Testing in Disorders of the Lumbar Spine
- Sensorimotor Control of the Lumbar Spine
- Outcome Assessment: Overview and Specific Tools
- The Role of Outcomes and How to Integrate Them Into Your Practice
Alternatives to Traditional Nonoperative Treatment
- Manual Therapy in Patients with Low Back Pain
- Acupuncture and Reflexology
The Injured Worker
- Returning Workers to Gainful Employment
- Occupational Ergonomics
Surgery
- Preparation for Surgery
- Surgical Approaches to the Thoracolumbar Spine
- Surgical Approaches to the Lumbar Spine: Anterior and Posterior
- Posterior and Anterior Surgical Approaches to the Lumbosacral Junction
- Endoscopic Anterior Lumbar Procedures
- Biology of Bone Grafting: Autograft and Allograft
- Bone Graft Substitutes in Spinal Surgery
- Principles of Spinal Instrumentation in Degenerative Disorders of the Lumbar Spine
- Spinal Instrumentation Overview in Lumbar Degenerative Disorders: Cages
- Translaminar Screw Fixation
Specific Clinical Entities
- Lumbar Disc Disorders
- Facet Joint Denervation: A Minimally Invasive Treatment for Low Back Pain in Selected Patients
- Intradiscal Electrothermal Therapy
- Operative Management of the Degenerative Disc: Posterior and Posterolateral Procedures
- Posterior Lumbar Interbody Fusion
- Operative Treatment of Anterior Procedures
- Operative Treatment of Anterior and Posterior Fusion
- Degenerative Disc Disease: Fusion Cages and Dowels
- Minimally Invasive Procedures for Anterior Column Fusion and Reconstruction
- Degenerative Disc Disease: Complications of Surgery
- Dynamic Stabilization in the Treatment of Low Back Pain Due to Degenerative Disorders
- Lumbar Artificial Disc Replacement: Rationale and Biomechanics
- Lumbar Disc Replacement: Current Model, Results, and the Future
- Disc Herniation: Definition and Types
- Disc Herniation: Imaging
- Disc Herniation: Nonoperative Treatment
- Operative Treatment of Disc Herniation: Natural History and Indications for Surgery
- Operative Treatment of Disc Herniation: Laminotomy
- Chymopapain and Chemonucleolysis
- Microscopic Lumbar Disectomy
- Classification, Natural History, and Clinical Evaluation
- Imaging of Spinal Stenosis and Degenerative Lumbar Spondylolisthesis with Stenosis
- Spinal Stenosis Without Deformity: Nonoperative Treatment
- Indications for Surgery and Laminotomy Procedures
- Laminectomy for Spinal Stenosis
- Laminoplasty
- Degenerative Lumbar Spondylolisthesis with Spinal Stenosis: Natural History, Diagnosis, Clinical Presentation, and Nonoperative Treatment
- Decompression
- Decompression with Posterolateral Fusion
- Anterior Lumbar Interbody Fusion
- Decompression with Instrumented Fusion
- Degenerative Lumbar Spinal Stenosis with Scoliosis-Kyphosis: Surgical Techniques, Results, and Complications
- Nondegenerative Spondylolisthesis: Epidemiology and Natural History, Classification, History and Physical Examination, and Nonoperative Treatment of Adults
- Imaging in the Evaluation of Lumbar and Lumbosacral Spondylolysis and Spondylolisthesis
- Evaluation and Management of the Athlete with "Pars Fracture"
- Indications for Surgery in Spondylolysis and Spondylolisthesis in Adults and Surgery for Low-Grade Spondylolisthesis
- Surgery for High-Grade Spondylolisthesis
- High-Grade Spondylolisthesis: Slip Reduction versus in situ Fusion
- Adult Scoliosis
- Adult Scoliosis: Indications for Surgery
- The Surgical Treatment of Sagittal Plane Deformity
- Spinopelvic Fixation
- Paget Disease of the Spine and Its Management
- Osteopenia: Basic Science, Magnitude of the Problem, Classification, Clinical Presentation, and Medical Therapy
- Surgical Options and Indications: Kyphoplasty and Vertebroplasty
- Osteopenia: Vertebrectomy and Fusion
- Inflammatory Spondyloarthropathies
- Psoriatic Arthritis
- Ankylosing Spondylitis: Nonoperative Treatment
- Ankylosing Spondylitis: Operative Treatment
- Pyogenic and Fungal Lumbar Spine Infections
- Tuberculosis
- Postoeperative Lumbar Spine Infections
- Primary Spine Tumors
- Metastatic Spine Tumors
- Lumbar Spine Tumors: Posterior Approach
- Anterior Procedures
- Combined Anterior-Posterior Procedures
- Prognosis and Results of Surgery for Primary and Metastatic Tumors
- Determining Reasons for Failed Surgery
- Failed Back Surgery Syndrome: Nonoperative Interventional Management Options
- Psychological Approaches to the Management of Failed Surgery and Revision Surgery
- Surgical Treatment of Symptomatic Recurrent Disc Herniation
- Management of Failed Lumbar Surgery: Recurrent Stenosis
- Failed Surgery and Revision Surgery: Failed Instrumentation
- Management of Failed Surgery: Adjacent Segment to Fusion
- Lumbar Pseudoarthrosis
- Management of Failed Surgery: Posttraumatic Spinal Deformity
- Treatment of the Failed Back Patient: Spinal Cord Stimulation
Index
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